"May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are."

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Source : Carol Emshwiller (2013). “Carmen Dog”, p.78, Small Beer Press

Carol Emshwiller

#Real Quotes #Self Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.”
“You mark my words, and it wonâ€™t be long ... when persecution begins in this country [USA], and it strips everything from you, and most of the evangelical church goes totally apostate, and little groups are left to be berated, THEN you will see that Christ is enough.”
“Philosophers, comedians, and tipsy birthday celebrants all have proposed theories about why time seems to move increasingly swiftly as we grow older. But the most disconcerting rationale is not a theory. It is the undeniable realization that every day we live constitutes a smaller percentage of the accrued experience with which we awaken each morning, and therefore seems proportionately a smidgen quicker and smaller than the day before.”
“People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.”
“I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible.”
“I'd love to have a shoe line, or a sunglasses line, or a purse line. Who am I kidding, I'd like to have an everything line!”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The road from the eye to the heart is easy to follow. I am taking it with my eyes closed.”

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